Becky Lynch Wins Intercontinental Title At WWE Money In The Bank 2025

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Becky Lynch had a brief alliance with Lyra Valkyria. "(Credit: Craig Melvin/WWE via Getty Images)
Becky Lynch finally vanquished her archnemesis Lyra Valkyria at WWE Money in the Bank 2025.
After losing to her former protege Valkyria at Backlash last month, 'The Man' made the most out of her rematch in the Intuit Dome, beating her fellow Irishwoman to win the Women's Intercontinental Championship for the first time. It wasn't exactly clean, though.
While Lynch was able to do what she couldn't do at Backlash and win one of WWE's newest titles, she only did so after pulling Valkyria's tights for the controversial victory.
Lynch's win was the climax of a rollercoaster ride of a storyline that kicked off at WrestleMania 41. That's when Lynch made her surprise return after roughly a year away to team with Valkyria and win the WWE Women's Tag Team Championship. The next night? Lynch and Valkyria lost those same tag team titles, and a fed-up Lynch turned heel on the star she was supposed to be mentoring.
That was all part of WWE's plan to help both Lynch and Raw's women's midcard title.
There was a clear knee-jerk reaction when Lynch won a title the same night of her return, but just 24 hours later, WWE cleared that up with Lynch's heel turn.
The goal was clear: utilize Lynch to elevate both Valkyria and the brand new Women's Intercontinental Championship. Heading into WWE Money in the Bank 2025, Valkyria had been the lone woman to hold the Intercontinental Championship, and throughout her reign, the title had largely been an afterthought.
Lynch has changed that, and even with a victory over Valkyria at Money in the Bank, she has helped catapult Valkyria to the next level. Once getting, at best, lukewarm crowd reactions, Valkyria has become a likable underdog-type babyface, and that's largely thanks to her feud with Lynch.
At WWE Money in the Bank, the crowd clearly supported Valkyria, demonstrating that Valkyria's feud with Lynch accomplished its goal. What's more, Lynch has helped raise the prestige of the Intercontinental Championship just by challenging for it.
And now that she's champion, Lynch can take it to even greater heights.
A small portion of WWE's fan base continues to cheer for Lynch, but throughout her rivalry with Valkyria, she became more hated by that same fan base.
It's not easy for Lynch to get jeers, given that she's such an accomplished and respected veteran. Yet, Lynch's win at WWE Money in the Bank 2025 helped entrench her in that role. After all, it took, well, cheating for Lynch to win, which shows how highly WWE thinks of Lynch in that role and of Valkyria as a fan favorite.
WWE Raw has no shortage of beloved babyface stars in the women's division, including Iyo Sky, Rhea Ripley and Stephanie Vaquer. There she also recently been teases of a babyface turn for Liv Morgan that could add further depth to that side of the fence. Perhaps that's why WWE is commiting to Lynch as a heel.
With the red brand doing just fine on the babyface side of the women's division, Lynch's tainted win over Valkyria at WWE Money in the Bank only further proves that Lynch is a heel to stay.